Nicole Holofcener Quotes

I have a suit in my closet with the pocket cut out. It's a reminder to me that I won't be taking anything with me. The last suit I wear won't need any pockets.

A man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of them--as a little insect might slip out of some parasite shell into which it has ensconced itself--into the grave, and is forgotten.

We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

I don't like to attach myself to material things.

Everything I have is for sale. Material items are just things that pass through your hands that mean very little or nothing.

People like their handbag more than their sofa, and I hate it.

There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things.

The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.

Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?

You can't take anything with you. So I don't understand this whole psychotic area of greed, I don't get it.

Naked we came upon earth, and naked we go forth, and of all our possessions, we can carry nothing with us.

Possessions only provide temporary happiness.

The more flesh, the more worms; the more possessions, the more worry.

Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body

Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here.

As adults, if our top priorities are constantly directed toward the acquisition of more and better worldly goods, it will not take long to increase our love in those directions. The purchase of a larger house or a nicer car or a more expensive boat may cause us to sacrifice our resources and develop an unwise love for these symbols of success and pleasure. We learn to love that which we serve, and we serve that which we love.

The things you used to own, now they own you.

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.

...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?

I don't think people today need to derive security from possessions.

We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.

Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things.